Northern Ireland Votes
For Peace--or Violence

By

Jonathan Stevenson

Updated May 31, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

Yesterday Northern Ireland's voters elected representatives to its 110-member "peace forum," some of whom will participate in negotiations beginning June 10 on a political settlement to the troubles in Northern Ireland. The forum is for discussion only and has no legislative power. The talks, however, constitute the fruit of painstaking efforts in Washington, D.C., London and Dublin to resurrect a peace process crippled by the Irish Republican Army bombing of London's Canary Wharf on Feb. 9.